Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.9
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1457
Points per Word
0.000343
Page Count
30
Points per Page
0.016667
Description
Mbeku, the greedy tortoise, gets himself invited to the banquet in Skyland, but is trapped with no way to get back to Earth in this Igbo tale of why the tortoise has a checkered shell.